Thesaurus / unstable
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Only Colbert can work through a “Your internet connection is unstable” warning popping up during a Zoom interview.
ONE GOOD THING: STEPHEN COLBERT IS LOOSER, FUNNIER, AND ANGRIER IN QUARANTINEEMILY VANDERWERFFSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOXThere’s a long history of rural areas relying on one unstable source of income and on the desirability of natural resources.
THE RECREATION ECONOMY ISN'T AS RESILIENT AS WE THOUGHTHEATHER HANSMANAUGUST 29, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEAfter that, spring would bring unstable ice, rising waters, and unsuitable conditions to trap fish owls.
THE QUEST TO SNARE—AND SAVE—THE WORLD’S LARGEST OWLJONATHAN SLAGHTAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEIf the universe turns out to be fundamentally unstable, a tiny bubble of the cosmos could convert to a more stable state.
‘THE END OF EVERYTHING’ EXPLORES THE WAYS THE UNIVERSE COULD PERISHEMILY CONOVERAUGUST 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWSIf the voltage goes too high or too low, the water itself becomes unstable.
BATTERIES SHOULD NOT BURST INTO FLAMESCAROLYN WILKEAPRIL 16, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSHence Napoleon was driven more and more to trust to the advice of the rash, unstable King of Naples.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONIndustrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThe bliss of lovers is so unstable, that in every case lovers have more woes than the moon has changes.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERTo me it is simply a medium, an unstable, oscillating medium of impetuous spiritual energies.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRAs a jailer he was in close touch with facts and knew by experience how unstable in these days was any man's power.
THE LIGHT THAT LURESPERCY BREBNERWORDS RELATED TO UNSTABLE
- agitated
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- up for grabs
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- all nerves
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- undependable
- underhand
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unsound
- unstable
- unsure
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
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